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<mark>Collodi's Pinocchio is not a utopian novel, but by positing a world in which responsible boyhood and adulthood are possible, it distinguishes itself from works like ''A.I.'', in which maturation is purposely and systematically denied</mark>. Ironically, the production schedule for ''A.I.'' would have been more leisurely had it been filmed in a world where growing up is impossible. According to Dustin Putman, the film was shot in 20 weeks rather than a year because Haley Joel Osmet was maturing too fast for comfort.... | <mark>Collodi's Pinocchio is not a utopian novel, but by positing a world in which responsible boyhood and adulthood are possible, it distinguishes itself from works like ''A.I.'', in which maturation is purposely and systematically denied</mark>. Ironically, the production schedule for ''A.I.'' would have been more leisurely had it been filmed in a world where growing up is impossible. According to Dustin Putman, the film was shot in 20 weeks rather than a year because Haley Joel Osmet was maturing too fast for comfort.... | ||
''A.I''.'s disturbing and somewhat incongruous conclusion marks it as <mark>a dystopia of childhood, a world in which perpetual childhood leads to endless frustration</mark>.... | ''A.I''.'s disturbing and somewhat incongruous conclusion marks it as <mark>a dystopia of childhood, a world in which perpetual childhood leads to endless frustration</mark>.... | ||
'''<mark>[P]aternalistic totalitarianism treats everyone as if they were children and treats children as chattel</mark>.''' | '''<mark>[P]aternalistic totalitarianism treats everyone as if they were children and treats children as chattel</mark>.''' | ||